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A PRUDENT MAID.
Two maids were walking in tlie grove
(They both were growing old,)
The one tx> tell a tale of love,
The other to be told.
"He is not rich," the elder said,
Nor handsome nor high-born;
The man whom 1 propose to wed
Most other girls would scorn."
"Why take him then ? You make me fear;"
The maiden's tears fell fast;
"lie was the first to offer, dear,
And lie might be the last."
FIVE MILLION FOUNDS.
liy T. WJBMYSS KEB1>.
CHAPTER XIII CONTINUED.
Cross-examination continued?"Yon say
ifce strychnia and bromide of potassium
"asro kept in the same cupboard. Now do
you ever make mistakes, Dr. Carrick, in
the compounding of your medicines:"
"Well, sir?I should not like to say posi
tively."
"Come, ccme. Dr. Carrick, be frank with
as. Tell me; did you ever mako a mistake
in making up your medicines?"
B imore stood like a tower among his
seated brethren. Hi-, long arm was out
Btretchod. and his forefinger, which was
point -d direct at the heart of the witness,
almost seemed as though it were a rapier,
by which the unhappy man had been trans
fixed. lYero was something terrible, too,
in the eye of tho great advocate as it flashed
upon the witness, something merciless in the
firmly clo-od mouth with which ho waited
for he answer to his question. Everybody
in court, I think, was fascinated by tho
spectacle. There he stood, motionless as a
statue, and unrelenting as an inquisitor,
while Dr. Carrick writhed visibly iofore
him.
*"Y< u must answer the question, sir," said
the jud^e in ; cremtory tones.
Breuthing hard, and pausing a moment to
wipe the Perspiration from his forehead,
the witness ?poke: "I havo made a mistake
onco?it was years ago."
"Wh.-.t was itP "I used a wrong drug in
mr.l.ing u;> a simple prescription."
"Thewiong drug! Tell mo tho name of
that dn:g, Ac'." "It was arsenic. My lord,
this happened twenty year.; ago, and 1 as
turc your lordship that there has been noth
fag-?
"Answer my question, sir, and dont mako
Speeches," said Beimoro. '"You toll us that
you <!iil ma fco a rnistako one , and that you
put arsenic into your medicine instead of
Something else. Pray what w as tho result of
that mistake! Did your patient take tho
medicine?" "Ho did, sir.-'
"And he ?lic-U" "Yes, to my lasting pain
and sorrow, ho di!. It was a baby, sir-"
"Don i make spew lies. Dr. Carrick. You
tell me that onco already you have made a
mistake in compounding your medicines
which cost one of your fc?ow creatures his
life. Now, will you admit tho possibility of
your bavin- made another mistake/ You
know your strychnia and your bromide of
potassium were in tho samo cupboard in
your laboratory?" "No, sir, I can't admit
that I made any mistake on this occasion. 1
got a terrible lesson twenty years ago."
"No doubt yuu did; but, excuse me, I did
not ask you whether you had or had not
made a mistake on this occasion, but
whether it was or was not possible for you
to do so?" "No, sir; it was impossible."
"You aro infallible now, eh?'' "Yes, sir,"
blurted out tho unhappy man, who evidently
did not know whether ho was standing on
his head or his heels.
"Well, I mean to ask tho jury ? to pro
nouneo an opinion upon that point, Dr. Car
. ri'.k. You can po now."
But Ik fore he went he was re-examined
by Hawk.
"Do you recollect making up these par
ticular powders for Mr. MaulevercrJ" "Per
fectly well."
"Are you quite certain you made no mis
take?'' "1 am positive I did not."
"In what part of your cupboard do you
keep your strychnia?" "On the top shelf,
sir."
"Now, there wero eighteen powders origin
ally in that box. Wero they all made up at
the same time?" "Undoubtedly, sir."
"Fiout the samo bottle of bromide?" "Cer
tainly."
"Were you interrupted while making them
up?" "Not that I remember."
"Havo you examined the four powders
which remain in tho box?" "Yes, in company
with my eminent medical colleague, Mr.
AU^oou, I have examined them."
"And do they consist, of protnido of potns
sitim or strychnia?" "Of bromide, of course."
"Then wo may tako it for granted that
Mr. Mauloverer had boon using these pow
ders without suffering any ill effect from
them down to the da)' of his death, and that
all the pjwders left in tho box after his
death ore perfectly harmless?" "I apprehend
that is the ease."
Dr. Carrick was followed by Mr. Allgood,
F.B.C.S., the eminent toxicologist, who
gave convincing evidence of thereat causo
of Mr. Mauleverer's death. Tho unfortu
nate millionaire had evidently taken a large |
dose of strychnia about an hour and a half
boforo he was beard by the servant maid to
cry out. Hb confirmed Carrier's statement
regarding tho powders remaining in tho box.
He had not discovered any trace of bromido
of potassium iu his analysis of tha contents
of deceased's stomach.
After him came tho chemist at Little
Lorten, Mr. Smirke, who told how on the |
7th of October tho prisoner had driven up
to his shop in her uncle's carriago, and had'
explain. 'I that she wished for a quantity of
strycluj.u, to U-employed in poisoning the ?
rate which abounded in th.? cedars of the
hull. He had iviuurko.l upon tho very dun- j
geroui character of the poison, and had j
recoium ndit.1 Miii!-' other method of getting j
rid of :ti" vermin Miss SStanclilFo agroed i
with him that tho poison was an exceedingly
dangerous one, and had expressed her ru
grct that her undo wbhod her to procure it. !
She had further requested him to supply it !
to her in a sealed parcel, so that, in casa of ;
its being accidentally found by one of ihe |
servants, it might, not be opened by mistake.
Beimoro only put ono question to this
witni'is: "Supposing yon were to see that
parcel again, would you know it at once and
bo able to say if it had boon tampered
with.'"' "Yes, 1 could not mistake that
parcel :i i saw it again. '
Then innio the evidence of the chief con
stable, my acquaintance East mead. It was
terrible to hear him tell how, "in conse
quence of information he had received," he
ha 1 tel. it to be his duty to make certain in
quiries regarding Mr. Mauleverer's death.
At that moment i dared not bavo faced
either Daby or Dr. Branksomc. I was
thankful when E ntmea-1 | wisse 1 on to toll of [
the . esult of i.;s search through the house, {
when be went there forth.- purpose of or- j
resting tin prisoner, it was a negative re
sult !?;?? ?;;??'!?-r. The only drugsof any kind I
which he could discover wero tho box of
powders produced in court, which ho found
upon the dressing table i:i Mr. Mauleverer's
room. ,i': i some simdo medicament, for tho J
teeth, which was in the bedroom of Mr* i
Cawtuornc, Nowhere could he find any
trace ol strychnia or any other poison.
In tho < ourse of his examination he recited
ftie statement made by the prisoner at tho
time of her arrest, after she had been duly
cautioned to the effect mat anything which
she said might bo used as evidence aRainst
her. It was as follows:
"I went to my dear uncle's room at about
ten o'clock", after being told by his servant
that be v. as ready to see me. I spoke a few
moments to him, and tben, according to our
usual custom, I read to him from the Bible
for a few minutes. After that I wont to bis
dressing.room and mixed one of his powders,
taking it from the Lox supplied by Dr. Car-"
rick. I w.n o:ic of the ordinary powders.
Iam quite certain of that. He drank it off
without n:ai;in'4 any remark, except that I
?hnd given him n bit'er dose. Ho then said
he was very sleepy, so 1 kissed him and left
hi* room. I never saw him again alive."
The attention of .he prisoner having been
directed to the fact that she was known to
have pu chased strychnia recently, she said:
"I bought the strychnia nt my uncle's re
quest. It was to bo used for poisoning the
rate. I was uneasy at having f_cb
an article in my possession, and I
placed the poison in a drawer in ay
bureau which I always kept locked. I*
remained there until the day after my
uncle's death. I remember entering my
dressing room then, und finding that in
my grief and excitement I had left that
drawer orcn. I have a vague recollection
of fooling startled at the thought that son:6
ono might have got at the poison, and I re
solved to mako it moro secure; but wheth er
I throw it into the fire as I originally in
tended, or hid it somewhere else, I cannot at
this moment remember. I shall remember all
about it soon, I foci certain; but I was so
much confused at the tinVo with grief and
horror that my mind was in a whirl, and I
hardly knew what I wa< doing. I fear I am
not much better yot, but perhaps by and by
I shall be all right again."
To my surpriso the next witness called was
Daisy'3 own familiar friend, Mrs. Caw
thorne. Her distross, however, was evident
and her testimony did little to strengt hen the
case of the prosecution. She was asked re
garding the conduct of Mr. Maulevorer after
he had learned what had parsed between
Daisy and myself, and sho was compelled to
say that the millionaire had betrayed very
great excitement, and end treated his nice
for a few days with extreme harshness. She,
however, Mrs. Cawthorno declared, had be
haved through it all liko an nng.d?and in
deed, my lord, if ycu know her you would
know that she is an angel, the best that ever
lived," crio 1 tho good woman, despite the
attempts of Hawk to keep her to tho point.
I felt cs if I could have embraced her on the
spot.
Cro's-examined by Mr. Belmoro?"You
said that Mr. Mauleverer showed preat ex
citement and treated the prisoner with harsh
ness 'for a few days.' How long, Mrs. Caw
thorne, was that before his il*>atuin ''He
changed for tho better about a fortnight
before his death? about tho time when Dr.
Bronksomo and Mr. Fosdyko left the hall."
"And just before the 24th of October,
what was the natura of his relations with
his niece?" "He was on excellent term:: with
her. On tho very day on which ho died, 1
told hor that I felt certain that all would
come right between them in the end."
"And did she mako any reply/"' "She said
she hoped it would bo so, as it would be
miserable both for her and for her ur.cle to
live in perpetual estrangement."
Fosdyko was tlio next witness. Ho pro
duced Mr. Mauleverer s will, and, amid a
general murmur of excitement, gave somo
details as to the amount of his wealth. By
the will that had been duly executed in the
month of Agust in London tho prisoner in
herited everything. Early in October he
(the witness) hnd gone down to Great Lor
ton Hall on business, and had there received
instructions from Mr. Mauleverer to pro
paro a second will, by which, in tho event
of tho prisoner marrying Mr. Cyril Fen ton,
the property, which under tho first will was
to bo vested In trustee* for her benefit, was
tobe applied to the ? erection and endow
ment of public hospitals in tho Australian
colonies, with the exception of a sum of
fifty thousand pounds, which was to bo puid
to Miss StanclhTo on tho day of her mar
riage. When these details ware given 1
thought that tho people in court, and es
pecially the well-droasod women in tho gal
leries, turned to my darling with moro
kindly looks than those with which thoy
had hitherto regarded her. Poor foolsl
They could look upon that sweet face, and
not road there the plain signs of purity and
innocence. Yet no sooner did they know of
the wealth which was now hers thun they
began to doubt and hesitate, and allow tho
strong conviction of her guilt which thoy
lnd previously entertained to be disturbed.
It was incrediblo to them that a woman who
was at this very moment tho owner of mil
lions should bo a vulgar murderess!
There was one part of Fosdyke's ovidonce,
however, which told heavily against us. It
was that in which he related how, at tho re
quest of Mr. Mauloverer himself, ho had
made Dais}' acquainted with tho terms of
the now disposition of her uncle's property.
"And what did she say in reply?" was the
question put by Hawk.
Fosdyke adjusted his pinco nez, and, with
i momentary assumption of that air of pert
self-satisfaction which had distinguished him
in happier days, but winch had undoubtedly
been missing of lato, said: "Miss BtanclUTo
is a lady, sir. I did not expect any show of
vulgar emotion when I told her of what was
practically her disinheritance, and I was not
disappointed."
"And how comes it, sir," cried Belmoro,
rising to cross-examine him, "that this will
has never yet been executed?" "I was leav
ing tho hall, immediately after taking Mr.
Maulevcrer's instructions, for Norway,
where I had business to transact on his bo
half. The fair copy of the will had to bo
made by my clerks in London, and I myself
suggested that the matter might stand over
till my return.
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"Hoi'.' comes it, sir? ' cried Belmoro.
"Ah! You were going to Norway, you
say, rattier a stormy voyage at this time cf
the year: and you would of necessity b
leavhigyour client, c. doli-ate old man, for
several weeks, yet you did not think it neco
sary to complete his will before your de
parture.'" "I did not."
"Now, sir, are you quite sure that Mr.
Mauloverer was in n proper state of mind at
that lime to execute a wi:l{" l;i should cer
tainly say he was; but I nm no doctor."
"Was he not under tho influence of an ex
traordinary degree of excitement about that
period:" "He was certainly very much ex
cited."
"Would you be surprise'! to hear that this
excitement was such as to load him to em
! ploy one of his servant? to abduct Mr. Fen- I
i ton, the gentleman towards whom he ap- I
pcared for some reason or o'.h<?r to entertain '
so extraordinary an antipathy/"
It was Daisy's turn tu start and look sur
prised at this question, as, indeed, most per
sons in court did. I had never told Daisy
1 the truth about my voyage to the north, nor
' should I have allowed that truth to be made
known now but for the imperative demands
of Mr. Belmore.
Fosdyko was manifestly disconcerted by
the question.
"Come, sir," cried Belmore, ,;I must .have '
an answer." "I heard something of it."
"Heard something of it! Why, wore you
not aboard the bhlp in which that gentle
man"?pointing to where I sat?"was ab
ducted?" "Yes; I know that such an ab
, duction took placo by tho orders of Mr. Mnu
loverer."
"Now, upon your solemn oath, did you not
think that the deceased was not in a fit state
of mind to manago his own affairs? and was
not that the real reason why you novor com
plete! tho execution of tho will?" "I cer
tainly thought him very much excited and
projudiced on that particular point, and I
felt that on tho whole it would be better to
give him time for reflection before complot
I ing the will?"
"In fact, you are propared to swear that
when you loft him, two weeks before his
death, he was so much oxcitod that his mind
tvas not in its normal condition?" "I
think so."
Fosdyko was tho last witness of any im
portance. It was now flvo o'clock, and
everybody in court was exhausted. No one,
thorefore, was surprised when tho juJgo an
: nounoed that at this point tho trial would bo
adjourned till tho next day. Daisy was in
stantaneously spirited out of the doc!:- but
before she left the waiting room bciow I
was allowed to have a momentary interview
with her. She was wan and worn; but her
sweot composuro onablod mo to keep up my
courage in her pre.-ence, and to assure her
that, so far as I knew, all was going well.
Alas! an)' delusions I night havo enter
tained on that point were only too quickly
dispelled. I had hardly finished my simplo
dinner nt the Station hotel when Hording
appeared at tho door of my room to tell mo
that Mr. Beimoro desired to havo an im
mediate interviow with mo.
I followed my friend to tho room of tho
great advocate, who was also staying at the
hotel. I found Mr. Belmore and our solici
tor, Mr. Bryce, in serious consulation.
"I sent for you. Mr. Fenton," said the
famous lawyer, "that I might havo a little
frank talk with 3'OU. 1 understand that you
aro really the principal friend of Miss Stan
cliffe. and I havo heard of tho relationship
in which you stand to each other. Now I
want to tell you at onco that sho is an al
most desperate position. AVo shall do our
best for her to-morrow, of course; but I
must ray candidly that I seo no hopo of
avoiding a conviction. 1 havo only two
points to make?one is tho possibility of a
blunder ou tho part of tho doctor in pre
paring Mr. Mauleverer's medicine, and the
other lire chance that Mttulevercr may have
committed suicide. But I do not think I
. ever had a stronger case to meet, nor have I
ever been compelled to trust to more worth
less straws than these."
I hoard him with a dread that seemed to
render mo volcaloss.
"Yes," he continued, "wo must not deceive
ourHJlves. Everything i? against us. But I
nm anxious to save this poor child if I can.
I do not believe her to bo guilty, and I hope
that something may yet turn up to prove
her innocence. I heard all that 3-ou have
told my learned friond bore, and I wish to
give you some advice. You must movo
'. heaven and earth to find out, first, what has
! become of the strychnia which Miss Btan
1 clilTe bought?for I do not beliovo that it has
been destroyed?and next where tho man
Gregs.m, of whom you havo told Mr. Hard
? ing, is to bo found. In my opinion bo pos
I aesses the k-?y to this mystery. But the first
: step you should tako is to obtain a power of
attorney from Miss StancliiTe, onabling you
I to act in relation to all her affairs as fully
as sho herseif could do. This must bo ob
tained, if possible, b?foro her conviction, and
Mr. Bryce, who has an order for an inter
view with her, will got it from hor to-night."
Thon the great man shook mo by tho hand,
; and, expressing his dosiro to help mo in
! every possible way, politely bowed mo from
j his room.
i I havo no heart to writo of tho events of
' tho next day. There was again tho oager
crowd of sightseers in court, and again all
the actors in tho dismnl tragedy appeared in
. thoir old places. Tho jury looked jaded
after thoir night of confinement at a neigh
1 boring hotel; und I was conscious that not
merely upon myself, but upon my darling,
tho awful ordeal of the previous day, and of
j the sleopless night which followod, had told
heavily. But she preserved tho same air of
: sweet serenity which had distinguished her
from the first.
Mr. Hawk's speech for tho prosecution was
tho coldest, clearest and most merciless expo
sition of tho facts that could by any possi
bility havo been laid before tho jury. He
was no novice at his work, and I shudder
ingly felt when bo sat down that he had not
left a loophole by which Daisy could escape.
That Mr. Mauleverer was undoubtedly poi
soned by strychnia ou tho night of October
24, that tho prisoner was tho porson who
must havo committed tho crime, and that
sho had a strong motive for committing it?
thoso wero the three points which he labored
to establish beyond the power of refutation,
aud it was only too clear that he did establish
them in the minds of nearly everybody in
court
Mi\ Belmore tcok a very different line.
His desire evidently was to get away as far as
possible from the evidence, and in a speech
which was full of impassioned and eloquent
pleading he dwell uj on tin- difllcuhy of im
agining that a young girl like Daisy could
uwr have conceived, much could have
carried out, so deadly a plot against tho lifo
of her relative and benefactor. Nothing but
absolutely convincing eridenre could justify
the jury In finding a verdict against her. BuL
in this case where was there uny absolute
demonstration e.f her guilt? Who could say
that Mr. M tuievererhad not, under tho inilu
encp of the excitement from which ha was tin
(ioubtedly suffering, committed suicide.' aud
In that case everybody knew th ? proverbial
cunning with which a madman sought to
hide tho traces of his acts; but even if this
hypothesis were to be r.-j cted, was it not
possible, and even probable, that weak,
muddle-headed Dr. Carrick might have
made another mistake, and by iuadvertcncj
given stryenin instead of bromide of potas
sium to his patient? At all events, wjth
these two possibilities staring them in the
face, the jury would incur a terrible re
sponsibility if they returned n verdict of
guilty against the prisoner.
1 think that if the jury had given their
verdict then it would have been in Daisy's
favor. But thf summing up of tho judge,
clear, careful and impartial, destroyed the
effect of Belinorc's eloquent special plead
nig.
I sat as in a dream, while the tedious
formalities connected with the retirement ^'
th" jury were carried out. And then came
half an hour of awful supense, during which
everybody remained In court save my darling
and the judge. I still recall with a sickening
sense of horror that sudden mil in the hum
of general conversation, which told us that
the jury were returning to deliver thoir ver
. diet. 1 seo the judge hurrying Lack to the
1 bench; I see the twelve men, with their
grave, set faces slowly filing into the box; 11
hear, as though from a. vast distance, the i
calling over of tho names, and the demand [
ot the clerk, "How say you, gentlemen; do j
you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty?"
And then I am oil my feet, with arms
strotched out to where my love stands, deadly
white, but more beautiful than ovor, with
hands clasped and eyes turned toward
heaven, which has just heard the mon-1
strous verdict that is to brand her j
namo with infamy and cut short her lifo
Upon the scaffold. For the jury have re- j
turned a verdict of "Guilty," and our last
hope has be<.n destroyod.
Some oae draws me back into my soat,
and implores me, for her sake, to remain
cald I try to obey, and I sit trembling i
Irom head to foot, amid the dread silence
which now foils upon tho crowded court,
whiio, in the fewest posdblo words, tho man
to whose hand the wielding of the awful
sword of justice has been intrusted pro
nounces my darling's doom.
And the? I wake us from a tranco. Daisy
is gone; tho judge has departed; counsel and
j solicitors, jurymen, witnesses and spectators j
j are all hurrying away, as though from the
j theatre when tho play is ended. Somo ono ]
I takes my arm It is Harding, who has had
j thno to doff hi< wig and gown, and who novi
j leads mo unresistingly from tho hateful
! spot.
CHAPTER XIV.
A RIFT IN THE CLOUDS.
Two days olapsod before I was allowed to
tea Daisy after her condemnation. Even
then I should hardly have boon permitted tc
havo an interview with her but for certain
powerful'iiifluonces, which had been brought
to bear on her behalf. Immediately after
pronouncing sentenco of death tho judge hnd
sent for Bolmore, and had told him that ho
' was by no means satisfied with tho caso as it
stood, and that ho had a strong conviction
'? that tho wholo truth had not yot been
learned. Ho found that Belmoro entirely
shared his viows, and from him he hoard of
me and of the efforts which I was making to
procure proof of my darling's innocence. It
was tho good judge who smoothed tho way
for mo with the prison authorities and who
made it possible for me to havo froo commu
nication with Daisy in her cell.
But it must not bo supposed that we?for
Harding had formally devoted himself to
my service in tho task in which I was on
gaged?wero idle during the two days of
; waiting beforo I was admitted to an inter
view with Daisy. Idle! how could wo bo
idle? It was now the Gib of December, nud
I had already been warned that the day on
which tho martyrdom of my darling was tc
bo carried cut war. tho 28th of the same
month, But three weeks wero given to us,
therefore, in which to establish her inno
cence. Even Harding?good, kind, never
to-be-forgotten friend?declared that neither
for food nor for sleep must one moment ot
, that precious thno be wasted unnecessarily.
What, thon, think you, was my frame of
mind?
Within a few hours of tho passing of tho
sentence Harding was iu London, where ho
I secured the services of tho most eminent pri
; vate detective of the day. Tho special mis
: sion of this man was to find Grogson. My
work on that dark day on which tho trial
endod was of a different kind. Putting all
remembrance of th.i inst few weeks aside, I
went to Brnnksomo and Fosdyko and ap
pealed to them to assist mo in tho task I hail
undertaken.
Ii ' -anksomo was just tho same as ho
had ? been. Yes, I bitterly lvflceto 1, ho
was just tho same; as easy, cool, pleasant in
: his mannor, now when Daisy was lying
'. under sontenco of death, as ho had been on
! that,first morning of my acquaintance with
: him, when ho did the honors of tho yacht
1 for bJr and for me. I could not bear the
thought of thist cynical selfishness, I had
been angry against him when I first know
that hu believed Daisy to bo guilty. Now I
; despised him for bis heartlessuess und would
; willingly have turned my back upon him for
ever, if it had not been that I felt ho might
glvo mo help in tho work of saving my
darling.
But very soon I found that this was not to
be. I again told him my conviction that
Flintor was tho real instigator of Mr. Mnu
lovorcr's murder, and I ropeatod the reasons
1 which led mo to think so. It was tho first
time that Fosdyko had hoard the story of
I my finding the book on "Forensic Medicine-'
on board tho yacht, and of tho way in which
' it opened at the pagos dealing with poison
i ing by strychnia 1 thought he seemed
startled by my statement, it had no effect
upon Brunksome, however.
"I seo what you wish mo to do, Fonton.
You are anxious that I should find a victim
for tho gallo wa in tho placo of poor Daisy,
and you suggest Flinter for tho purposo."
"And is that tho way in which you speak
of the girl whom you havo known slnco she
left her mother's arms, and whom you pro
fess to love?'' I cried, in my indignation.
"Dr. Branksome, if anyone ha I nsked mo
what I thought of you a few weeks ago, I
should have said you were ono of the noblest
and truest men on tho face of tho earth; but
if anyone were to put tho question to me
now, 1 should bo forced to tell him that I
had found you to bo false as a friend, and
mean and heartless as a man?ono who can
sit hero in the full enjoyment of every lux
ury"?I had found the two at dinner?"when
the child who has looked up to him as a
father is lying In the condemned col!! Aye,
and who can even answer the prayer that
ho would join in the attempt to save her
from her doom, with a cold sneer!'
He hoard mo without moving a musclo of
his face, and when ho replio 1 hu spoke in
his usual voice. It was just as pleasant and
equable In its tone; as it had ever been.
"1 wish you success and Godspeed with all
my heart, Mr. Fonton; and tor the sake of
Daisy I forgive your injustice towards my
self. But I teil you this, sir, plainly: I have
been convinced of her guilt by the evidence
laid beforo the court; and while I am willing
to join you in making every effort to obtain
for hor tho mercy of the crown?any, Mr.
Fosdyke will tell you that I am already tak
ing steps for that purpose?I am not pre
pared to try to saw her, whom I believo to
be guilty, by throwing her jin upon another
whom I know to be innocent."
What could I do in appealing to a mar.
whose very cruelty was founded upon hi;
iuve of what was right/ 1 could not answer
Iii? logic, and 1 saw thut it would t o useless
to upbraid him. Byt in my heart 1 hated
and dvspis.d him.
"Then,'' I said at last, seeing that no heir
could ho hoped for here, "I shall act for my
self, and if I have to spend every farthing T
have in the world and to devoto every day
that remains to mo of life to tho task, you
may depend upon it that I shall yet con
found you all by proving her innocence."
Of my interview with Daisy, when at last
1 wai admitted to hor in tho condomned eel!
at tho old Castle, I shall say nothing that
does not bear directly upon tho subsequent
events. .She was chaugo.t greatly when 1 saw
her; but she declared that I was far more ?o
riously altered than she was. And probably
Au was right; for 1 bad nothing of that
uoblo courage and resignation which had
borne her up through all thi- time of agony.
But I dared not spend the precious minutes
in lovers' talk. I had ether work to do for
her sake.
My first business I felt must bo to get
from her her own theory, if she had one,
regarding the murder; and to prepare her
way for that, I told her freely all my own
suspicions, und the story of my abduction.
of which sho had only heard Tor tho first
time during tho course of liie trial.
"And you really bdieve that my uncle 1
caused you to be spirited away in that fash
ion! Depend upon it, dearest, you aro en
tirely deceived. My uncle was innocent."
"Then who could have originated the plot?"
"Flintor must havo done so. Let mo tell
you all I know about him. He has beeu em- 1
ployed for nearly eight years at my uncle's
chief station at Wangoora?tho place where
wo lived. I am told that ho had been in
some serious trouble, and that my uncle, whe
was usually one of tho kindost as well as ons
of tho most simple-hearted men, befriended
him. Very soon after ho came to the station
as an ordinary shepherd he saved my uncle's
life when he was nearly drowned in crossing
a swollen river on our run. That, you may
1)0 suro, was nover forgotten by my uncle
He very quickly raised him to one of tho
chief posts on the estate, and at tho time that
f earae to live at Wangoora, six years ago,
ho was thi constant companion of my un do
in his journeys, aud had evidently secured
his confidence."
"But you spoke of him to mo as danger
ous. "
"Yes; ho is dangerous, and had, too. I
very soon discovered that But I cannot for
a moment imagine that he wouid havo
plotted against his b mefactor's life. Ho
had'everything to lose and nothing conceiv
able to gain by my unc e's death."
That was ? perfectly true, and it was tho
one groat stumbling block in tho way of my
theory regarding the murder. Fiintcr un
doubtedly had nothing to gain by it.
"Daisy," I sail, byou must forgive me for
questioning you on a subject that has long
pnzzl d ma, but about whi<:u I saw that you
did not wish to tell mo anything. I want to
know all that you cm te.l mo about that
man whom 1 saw in the railway station h-ro,
on the day we II:st met. It ne: e>-ary that
you should tell m ? ail, my darling."
Sho blushed slightly, and then a faint
smilo lighted up her worn face.
"Ah, how happy an accident it was that
led mo to the carriage when you were
sealed that day! I should have beeu with
out a friend now but tor that."
"But about this man?Gregsoa!"
"1 should have told you all about him if
th ro ha 1 boon any opportunity of doing so
after you spoke t? me at the hall. For, do
you know, that at one time he had tried to
mako me believe that he was in love with
tne, and whoa he found that I cared nothing
whatever about him In began to persecute
mo in a mean, paltry kind of way, till I
positively b.-came afraid of him."
"Where was it that he first began to annoy
you f
"At Wangoora, about three years ago.
You see, ho was my uncle's confidential
cleric, and came a great deal to the house.
Ho hid not thou given way, us I f ar be has
done now, to 1 a I habits, and he was a great
friend of Dr. Braiiksoino's. 1 never cared
for him?in the least." Dear bear)! she
looke I up at me with tho happy smilo of a
maiden who tells her story for tho tlrst t?mo
to the man sho loves, and for a moment wo
forgdnll about the prison bars, and the two
women who sat mutoiy watching us at tho
other end of the cell.
"When he found that I did not caru for
him ho became, as I said, very disagreeable
He would try to waylay mo and hint dread
ful things ;.l oat having mo in his power,
and I think that very soon he camo to bate
mo as much as ho had once profes-cd to like
me. Then ho became careless and disobe
dient in his work, and ho quarreled with
Flinter and was insolent to Dr. Bronksome,
and tho end of it till was that he was dis
missed."
"And what happened then?"
"Oh, a great deal. Ho professed to have
discovered some dreadful plot in which wo
wero all engaged for tho purpose of im
posing upon my undo. I laugh-.' at him at
the time, for 1 know of eourso that there
was no plot of any kind, und I little droame I
of what was coming. But the man became
hateful both to mo and my uncle, especially
when wo found that he had actually followed
us to England. I havo never scon him, how
ever, siueo that day at York."
"Tell me, dearest, who wero tho persons
whom ho charged with boing in this plot/"
"Oh, I believo I was the chief sinner of all.
He several times met mo when I was alono,
nuil accused me of it. Thou ho bat -d Flin
ter, and said dreadful tilings about him, and
oven about Dr. Brnuksomo. But I never
know what tho plot was to which ho re
ferred. "
"Did Dr. Branksomo know what tho man
was saying about him?"
"Of course he did. Why, I think that,
next to me, ho hatol Dr. Branksomo tho
rno-t, and I remomber his saying once that
he could have sent him to p na! servitude if
he liked."
I "In Dr. Branksomo's presence?"
"Yes."
1 was startled by what I had heard, for I
remembered how Branksomo had disclaimed
any knowledge of tho moaning of (.Tivgsou's
language to mo in tho railway train when 1
had reported it to him. Some strange fan
cies stolo into my brain.
"Tell mo, Daisy, what do you think of Dr.
Branksomo himself;''
Sue glanced up at mo, and that troubled,
doubtful look which I had noticed more than
once at S -arborough passed over her face.
"I do not know how 1 can an- wer your ques
tion,1'sho said, altera pause, ami .speaking
very slowly, as though weighing all hor
words. Dr. Branksomo is a wonderful man.
I never met any one like him. When lam
with him he can make me do everything ho
wishes?or nearly everything. It is only
when I am away from him that I doubt and
fear him."
"Then you do doubt and fear him some
limes.'*'
"Yes, when he is not near me. When ho
is, I hardly seem to have any will of my
own. it is very st, u.:g.-. I cannot explain
It, Semetimes 1 thin!: he is :? very, very
gootl man; but there tiro times when 1 think I
very differently of him."
"When di l you seo him bist, Daisy?" I
asked, fee.ing as though 1 w??iv ou ti." Urin!;
of some great discover/.
"The day b iforo the trial Iteg.m. Did you
l. A .' lias ho not told you?"
I "He has told mo nothing."
'?That is strange, for he promised that !:??
' would do:". He brought me my will, waldi
it seemed tuat it was necessary J should sign
before I was trio I."
??Vom- will! I don't w.-nt to pry into
' your private all'.iirs, my darling, but 1 must
ask you if you left anything ioDr. Lirank
j suill.-l''
Anything! Why, I left everything to
? him, of course?that is. everything but some !
little things I want you?" She stoppe !, i
! blushing !?? ?y re !.
i
' "Do you mean you left all your uncles for
tune to Dr. Brauksome.*''
I "Yes; you s-.e he was the 11 ti-.lv.? ;ij pointed
! by my uncle, und i;c dkl not need to t. ii mo
: that he was the oidy person to whom I could I
? leave my uncle's ?..:> .c/."
In au instant I saw, u-. when t'ao \Auv. ? of j
summer lightning illumines tho wide land- I
scape for miles at a stretch, the whole enn- '
I spiracy, in the toils of which r.'.y darling
1 had been caught. But that vivid llosh of
consciousness faded almost as quickly o? it
came, and left me once more groping in tho
j twilight?not, howover, before I had taken
by bearings, as it were, afresh, ami had seen
that our real position was altogether differ
j ent from what, up to that moment, I had
imagined it to be.
I [TO BE COJJTIKUED.]
HARPiN Riees,
Dealer In
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, WAG
ONS, etc.
Having bought the right fur Oiaiieeburg
County in the Celebrated Nun & Epps
Patent Noil Washer Axle Nut, 1
am prepared to put them on
axles at ?1 poi set. The use
of this Nut does away
with leather wash,
crs altogether.
Vehichles of every description repaired and
repainted on the shortest notice- All
kinds of Blacksmith Work aud
Horseshoeing done promptly.
My Plaining and Moulding Machine IsstiL
in operation and 1 am prepared to fur
nish Moulding or Plain Lumber on
the most Liberal Cash Terms.
My Grist Millruns every Saturday.
read THeTbOVe" carefully
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OTTS ALTERATIVE PILLS is no patent
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done for the past six month, aud upon their
merits alone, unassisted by advertising;
their sale is unprecedented and astonishing.
Get a box and try them. For sale by
D. J. G. WANNAMAKER.
Sept 30-lyr. Orangeburg. S. C.
T. DeChiavette,
SIGN OF THE WATCH.
north side russell street.
The undersigned calls the attention of
the citizens of Orangeburg and elsewhere
throughout the State to his kihst class
ASSOItTMKNT OF
WATCH LS, CLOCKS,
EVERY ARTIBLE IN
THE JEWELRY LINE,
EVE (.-'LASSES, Ac, Ac,
which be is prepared to sell at (he lowest
mahkkt pkicks.
His slock on hand is VARIED AND
CHOICE, AND CANNOT BE SUR
PASSED.
REPAIRING WATCHJ'5, CLOCKS
AND JEWELRY he makes a specialty,
and guarantees perfect satisfaction in every
case. Customers are solicited to give his
articles and work a fair trial before going
elsewhere. T. DeCHIAVEITE,
Out 7- Watchmakeii and Jeweled.
Z. M. WOLFE,
(AT SCHIFFLEY'S OLD STAND.)
I>c:il<-r in
CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES
ash the
PureN. C. Distilled CORN WlIIsR'Ei"
a specialtv, Si.75 per gallon.
Pure RYE WHISKEY. 81,75 per gallon.
Fine old BAKER RYE WHISKEY,
St.per gallon.
XNNX GIBSON WHISKEY, $3.73 per
gallon.
also
FINE SEGARS AND TOBACCO IN
STOCK.
As 1 expect to change business on first of
.January, will sell cheaper than any house
in the City.
Don't mistake the place, but call at the
Northwest corner of Railroad Avenue and
Russell Street, right at Railroad Sign.
Sept 23-Umos*
PIA.HOSi ,V>'3> ORGANS.
I WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW
that 1 represent seven leading PIANO
AND ORGAN FACTORIES and will sell
at Manufacturer's LOWEST CASH OR
INSTALLMENT FIGURES.
I am prepared to give special induce
ments to long time purchasers.
Any Instrument sent on fifteen days
trial.
1 will positively save every purchaser
from ?10to?30. D. II. MARCHAXT,
ORANGEBURG, S. C.
At G. H. Comelson's store.
April 22-lyr. _
B'OIS WAI?K.
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100 East Cay,
Scpl :?ii-:tmos Charleston, S. C.
"MOOES COUNTY GRIT"
I,,. ,i ?tili t .ti? iu I'm World f--r Tiililc Meal.
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., ir? ; r Ultimo-*, lliiilfr*,Snw
Hills, ?'?OoilCill?. I'lamrri. SnMOUR. Jlllm?,
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. ,., im.t> Imrrwi ol ilioir Bemalte?.
v . . .'?? i; v.-j ir.'t! ?ill?'ii?atnMlVOn.
A-iir.-... North f'nrollaa Mill
mime ( ik. l-arkcvo-wl.MwruCu..N.?._
Felice? ol* tf '?>j>;i r? ix'rwliip.
r|MIE I'NDKHSIGNED HAVE
i this day associated tliemselvcs together
for Ilm praetiiv of law under the lirm name
of (i lover vV Bowman.
MORTIMER GLOVER,
1. W. ISOWMAN.
nraiej.-bnr-,'. S. ('., Oct. 7. issii-'d_
aiuai. r..vnii:o:-. r. m. wavvamakku,
(?raif-'obnrg, S. C. St. .Matthews. S. C
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ATIIROU cv- WANNAMAKER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
ohaxcuul'llO, S. C.
Otlice l'p Stair* Over tlieJlV-tullice.
It. h. MOSS. c.c. dantzleb.
\M OSS & DANTZLER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ohasgeuuug, S. C.